M.Sc. in Biotechnology (MS University of Baroda, Vadodara) & Ph.D. in Botany (BHU). Research interests include plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress factors. Tools of plant physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology are utilized to decipher out how plants sense and transmit stress signals at the cellular level.

MSc & PhD in Botany (University of Lucknow). Research interest is to understand metal(loid)-plant interactions with the perspective of sustaining agricultural productivity and for using plants for the remediation in affected sites. Major focus is to develop methodologies or agronomic practices for growing rice having negligible arsenic content in grains.